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Ty Carof Eewett, Bcrbar.Isnlo[Lca E Stene.Tonea Ruth Paine: Social Activist or Gontra Support Networker? ty Carof Eewett, Bcrbar.Isnlo[lca e Stene.tonea Committee claim that no effort was ever form of a donation to CORE, for the four made to coordinate the correspondence of black school girls who had been killed in a persons participating in the pen-pal activ- church bombing just three days before.e ity, nor were any records made of persons More interesting, however, is an FBI who took pan in this program, or with whom document which chronicles Ruth's one- they corresponded.a This reflects a strange woman crusade to advanceracial integra- lack ofprocedure for an organization whose don in Dallas,Texas,after the assassination. ftqffimotivate her to shelter Marina Oswald,t How- main goal is to make personal, and presum- According to a Mr. Smith, the Regional Di- eve4,many researchershave suggested that ably lasting contact with Soviet youth. Other rector for the Federal Housing Administra- Ruth's activism and altruism are grourded gods of the East-West Contact Cornmittee don, he was telephonically contacted at least in a role as informalt, casud or otherwise, were to encouragestudents to "prepare them- three times by a Mrs. Ruth Paine who, for some aspect of US intelligence. The fol- selvesd[ough studyofliterature, modem his- "asked him for the identities of Negro lowing is arr overview of Ruth's political ac- tory economics and Russian language for families who might be interested in buy- tivities gleaned fiom FBI documents, grand eventual contact ing housing in jury testimony and first-hand reports. Ruth's with Soviet young lrving, Texas."ro effons on behdfofpeace and civil rights, and people."s It was lflgfllgil I Mr.smrth arso re- he! presencein Nicaraguaduring dte late 80's during this period -l;tEtlt'lll ceived a letter and early 90s, will be reviewed.While no defi- that Rud! beganher ffitl fromMrs. Paine nite conclusion can be drawn as to her mo- study ofRussian by llfilllliIE|Ellll that he provided tives, and certainly nothing emerges to attending the Uni- iitEFfiEfFFIl to theFBI. In the suggestthat she was not a sincere Christian, versity of Pennsyl- letter Ruth de- pattems do emerge that could be consistent vania and later gi{il:l5ilEE- | scribes a house fEt.-l wirh intelligence associations. spending summers EtrIill thatis being built at a special Russian for an employee EarlyActivities of Bell Helicoo- Ruth's activism began during the fifties -lter, and suggests that a similarhouse couid when she attended several Young Friends stitutes, which often employed a mixture of be built on an adjacent lot for a black family. conferencesdevoted to stimulating the par- right wing eastem European refugees and Is this lot pan ofthe propertyMichael Paine ticipation ofyouth groups in church activiry. white Russians,were prime recruiting bought fiom JackAmold in 1963?ttAnother At a conferenceheld at Quake! Haven in Syra- grounds for various agents and informants.6 employeeof the FederalHousing Adminis- cuse,Indiana in 1955Rutl actedas a coord! The schools Ruth attended, and her instruc- tration in Dallas states tlnt he believes "Mrs. nator. It was out of this conference that the tors should be further researched.Ruth's Rus- Paine contacted some Negro people in the East-west ContactsComminee was bom. The sian studies findly culminated in 1963 when area, but they do not want to have anything Committee's goal was to explore the possi- she acquired a live-in tutor-Marina Oswald. to do with her." He said,he "was contacted bility ofyoung Quakers making contact with It is also likely that Ruth was under sur- by a leader of the Negro community who young Sovietsthrough pen pal correspon- veillanceduring theseyears, since there are told him they did not want to have anything dence and subsequent personal contacts, in FBI reports ofher receivingmail from Rus- to do with Ruth Paine.and askedifhe could order ro help relieve East-west tensions.2The sia while shewas living on her inJaws' (the keep her away from them."l2 Is Ruth just inspiration for this proiecr was the American Youngs) property in Paoli, Pa. in the late making a sincereattempt to carryout Presi- Friends Servicecommittee (of which this 50's.7This peliod coincidedwith a CIA let- dent Kennedy's civil righrs plans? Or did the group was not a part) who sent a delegationof teropening project that attemptedto mon! black community sensethat Ruth was some studentsto dre soviet Union to promote world tor mail coming fiom communist countries sort of informant seekingto identify poten- peace.It is entirely possibledtat dre Ea5t-West to the United States. By the end of the pe- tial "troublemakers"? Contact Corrunittee was a more consenative riod the CIA had opened over 13,000 letters responseto the liberal AFSC efforts. and placedrnany names and organizations on lUicaragua, l99l An integral part of the East-west con- surveillance lists. Eventuallythis information During the ensuing decades,the focus tacts Committee was t}le pen-pal program, was shared with the FBI.3 ofUS intelligence activiry shifted away from and in at leastone document a confidential FBI documents record her interest in civil Cuba to Central America, culminating in the informant suggeststhat itwas through pen- rights shortly before and after the assassi- Reaganadministration's effons to destabi- pal activity during this period that Ruth first nation. She attendedMartin Luther King's lize and overthrow Nicaragua'sSandinista contacted the Oswald family while they were historic August 1963march on Washington govemment, whose successfulrevolution in Russia.3Ruth denies contact with the and stopped off in Selma,Alabama during terminated the rule ofthe corrupt and hated Oswalds, and organizers for the Contact that sametrip to expresscondolences, in the Somoza family, through a CIA proxy war. In f{|OBE July-august, t996 the early sixties the CIA molded anti-Castro in the assembty,and American groups, sym- Wheaton goes on to recount Ruth and Cuban refugees into a paramilitary merce- pathetic to the achievementsof the revolu- an associateof hers, Jon Roise, attending nary gangdubbed a "liberation brigade," just tion continued m arrivein Nicaragua several meetings ofthe solidarity as in the eighties they would bankroll former It wasin ftis contlrc in 1990dnt committee at Casa Benjamin Somoza National Guardsmen into the mer- Sue Wheaton met Ruth Linder.Ruth took copious cenary army, dubbed "freedom fighters." hine. Rudtwas r €presen- notesand anotler friend Several alumni ftom the Bay of Pigs' rogues ative of a groupcalled of hers, Sean Mille! gallery materialized in Nicaragua to train the Pro-Nica, a proiect made severaltape re- Contras including: Felix Rodriguez, long of the Southeastem cordings and took time CIA agent and member of Operation YearlyRierds Meet- photographs.Ruth 40 Assassination Unit which was formed to ing, basedin SL R- claimed that rhe assassinate Fidel Castro; Rafael Quintero, t€rsbu& Flodda It photographs were who escapedfrom Cuba after the failed Bay is important to note being taken for of Pigs invasion and retumed to Miami to ttlat dte Soudrcast- the NicaraguaNet- work under CIA agent Thomas Clines; and em Yearly Friends wo*in Washington Theodore Shackley,former CIA station chief Meeting is a totally DC. Later, when a in Miami.t3 seParare grouP lrom fiiend of Wheaton's ln third world countries, the CIA rou- the American Friends checlcd with the Nica- tinely utilizes religious organizations to un- ServiceCommittee. Many ragua Network, they dermine the social movements ofindigenous people associate Quakers claimed they had not com- peoples,and to advancethe goals of U.S, or Friends with the American missioned anyone to take pic- policy. During the era of Washington's un- Friends Service Committee, a progressive tures in Nicaragua.Thus, the explanation official war against the Sandinistas the CIA social action committee, founded by several given by Ruth Paine was false. Months later was heavily involved with religious groups east coast Quaker meetings. Histodcallt Jon Roise volunteered to secure speakersfor due to the ideological struggle emerging when individual Quakers began to leave the the regular meetings at CasaBenjamin Linder. from within the churches themselves. "Lib- northeast and east coasts and migrate to tle The two speakers he brought were former eration Theology," bom out of the experi- Midwest, there weren't enough of them to Cortrai who complained of lack of suppon ence of Latin American grass-roots comprise their own meeting house, so they ftom the Americans, except for a Quaker theologians, advocated a church of social sometimes attended Baptist or Presbyterian group who "always came through for them." action. It attempted to shatter the traditional church services.The Midwest and southem alliance ofthe churches with oppressive gov- Friends meetings evolved along more con- OtherAssociatiorg emments and rich elites. The call of libera- servative lines due to the influence ofthese What conclusions can be drawn about tion theology, deeply threatening to church more fundamentalist churches. It is with Ruth Paine'spolitical philosophy and her hierarchies and the CIA, inspired many pro- these rnote conservadve meetings that Ruth possible relationship with elementsof the gressive U.S. church orgarizations and in- is associated. According to Wheaton, Ruth intelligence community in the light of her dividual citizens from around the world to told her that her Quaker group was funded social activism and FBI files? Three things go to Latin American countries and assist primarily by "6 wealthy, conservative indi- stand ouc she was strongly anti-communist, the people in their attempt to gain human viduals from the Southeast."r!It was cun- she was under surveillancebefore her rela- rights. Known as "Intemationalists," they ous to Wheaton that conservative tionship with the Oswalds, and virtually I flooded Nicaragua by the thousands to help individualswould want to suppon humani- every member of her family was either un- I in the Literacy Crusade, to teach, to build, tarian aid to Nicaragua, especially in light der surveillance and,/or had connections I to plant, and to provide medical assistance.
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